Today we bring you one of the first reviews of a retail KT400A motherboard.
Gigabyte was able to send us their KT400A motherboard before any other manufacturers,
and best of all in total working order. The only other KT400A motherboard we've
received has been from Soltek; you'll see a review of this board in the near
future.

In case you're interested in the exact differences between VIA's KT400
and KT400A chipset, read
our KT400A preview from a couple weeks ago for detailed information on this
chipset. Bear in mind that the KT400A performance results in that review are
of a reference KT400A motherboard, whereas this review's KT400A performance
results are of a retail motherboard from Gigabyte, dubbed the 7VAXP-A Ultra.

Read on to see how Gigabyte's KT400A motherboard fares against the fastest
Athlon XP motherboards based on NVIDIA's nForce2 chipset…